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Today we are travelled to Hakone by speed train. We had been saving our JR pass for the longer transits from Tokyo to Hakone and Hakone to Kyoto, only to find out that we could not use our JR pass all the way to Hakone, even though this was a little disappointing, we soon got over this frustration as the train fare was minimal and time difference only half an hour. The train trip we did have was very ...

Here the hot springs, erupting geysers and bubbling pools of boiling mud dominate a fascinating landscape. We take the Hakone rope way from Sounzan down to Togendai on lake Ashinoko. We take a boat journey around the lake which is a water filled volcanic crater with a circumference of 18K. We are now making our way to Tokyo by ...

... of the mountain. Far earlier than planned we set off for Hakone and had some lunch before going up the Hakone sky gondola to the Owakudani Valley. Here we went for a walk up to where the geothermal activity was taking place so we could see the sulphur clouds hard boiling eggs and turning them black. It reminded me a lot of Rotorua in New Zealand. We descended back down the mountain on the coach ready to get on our pirate boat across Lake Ashi. From here you ...

Today was the turn of theme park FujiQ Highland, it seems like every day I wan't to do something cultural or educational it buckets with rain and we scuttle back to hotels and the days we do theme parks are beautiful! Anyway I can't complain about the weather today, it was lovely, a bit chilly because of the altitude especially in the evening after a couple of water rides but other than that it was sunny blue ...

... got cold by the end of the day. Luckily we'd planned for a hot spa caper again, it really is the only thing to do when it's wet! I don't have photos for today, sorry, will load some up at the end of the trip (not sure who I'm telling this to, the odd thing about writing a blog is the thought that you are just writing it for future-you to ...